John M. P. Knox

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Great business communicators should be judged by results, not feelings. Only a closed feedback loop can ensure that both sides convey the correct information.

Repeat what you hear; ask what they heard.

Look at how many folks have suddenly become experts in market futures. If these folks could predict the market, they would have done it before last week.

Today is not the day to take up a new hobby day trading, hedging currency risk, or dabbling in options. #investing

Next @leenyburger.bsky.social will tell us how to do cold outreach without Ick. @microconf.com #microconf

Time savings is table stakes. Nobody buys software hoping to spend more time on stuff. – Marcos Rivera of PRICINGIO @microconf.com #microconf #b2b #saas

“I have never in my life wanted to ‘learn more.’” – @punchlinecopy.com on calls to action that are NOT exciting. @microconf.com #microconf

We use hope as an on-ramp to excitement. – @punchlinecopy.com @microconf.com #microconf

Why would we use skepticism in your copy? Because people feel it when they read your claims. – @punchlinecopy.com #microconf @microconf.com

Your money story is at the heart of your business decisions. @robwalling.com @dr-sherrywalling.bsky.social #microconf.

Not everything difficult is an emergency. Don’t turn speed bumps into roadblocks. @robwalling.com @dr-sherrywalling.bsky.social #microconf

Build your network, not your audience. @robwalling.com @dr-sherrywalling.bsky.social #microconf

What matters most to you? Are you an artist? A leader? A entrepreneur?

Products/people/$$

@dr-sherrywalling.bsky.social @robwalling.com @microconf.com #microconf

Yes. A challenge for many folks (myself included) is that many learning opportunities only yield useful feedback after many attempts.

Founder sales are tough because five “no” responses feel terrible. And any feedback you collected has significant uncertainty.

Yeah, it sounds trite. The point here isn't so much reframing as taking positive *action*.

In business, you can see challenging events as scars or skills.

A customer angrily complains about a bug. Is that a scar, or are you building skills?

A promising ad campaign burns through $10k without results. Scar? Or the price of a new skill?

Sometimes you make reality through your reaction.

Next up, @dr-sherrywalling.bsky.social and @robwalling.com tell us about exiting a business. #microconf

@robwalling.com kicks off @microconf.com in New Orleans. #microconf

Paying dividends is like distilling water. The water condensing on the apparatus's cool side isn’t manifesting from the ether – it transfers from the boiling vessel.

Investors focused on dividend returns for income are confused. Selling stock and receiving dividends reduce portfolio value.

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MicroConf Europe, Europe's most trusted conference for non-venture track SaaS, September 28-30 Istanbul. Speakers: Rob Walling, Michele Hansen, more to come!

Thrilled to announce that I'll be speaking at @microconf.com Europe in Istanbul in September!

See you there?!

An under-appreciated benefit of attending a mega-social conference like @microconf.com is that I don’t read the news. I don’t miss it either; spending time with friends cures doom-scrolling. #microconf

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Free for life is like crack cocaine. It works, but…

How do you get people off of it? Put it in a box. Don’t add new features to the free plan; entice the users to pay for an upgrade. – Marcos Rivera of PRICINGIO @microconf.com #microconf

Put guardrails around your discounts with a discount matrix. – Marcos Rivera of PRICINGIO @microconf.com #microconf #b2b #saas

Time savings is table stakes. Nobody buys software hoping to spend more time on stuff. – Marcos Rivera of PRICINGIO @microconf.com #microconf #b2b #saas

Now Ryan and Pat from Quietlight discuss making your business exit-ready. @microconf.com #microconf

True creativity comes from knowing when to break the rules, something that #AI isn’t good at. @tracyosborn.com #microconf @microconf.com

Einar Vollset has a new look @MicroConf. Next up: Will #AI kill #SaaS? #microconf @tracyosborn.com

@leenyburger.bsky.social used @asmartbear.com’s offer to pay tactic (see photo) from ten years ago in cold LinkedIn outreach and still found it effective. @microconf.com #microconf